scholarly journals Ecoturism as a Means of Formation of Ecological Consciousness and Culture of Personality

2021 ◽  
pp. 8-22
Author(s):  
Leonid VYHOVSKYI ◽  
Tetiana VYHOVSKA
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Ecological Consciousness ◽  
Empirical Level ◽  
The Individual

In the conditions of the global ecological crisis the problem of physical habitation of people as a biological species objectively arises in the foreground. The main reasons for the negative impact of human activities and society on the natural environment, which caused such a crisis, are revealed. Emphasis is placed on the fact that the reduction in society of the technocratic worldview in the life of mankind eventually led to such a negative situation. Emphasis is placed on the fact that in order to overcome it, firstly, it is necessary to rethink the relationship in the system «human — nature» at the global level and, accordingly, to form in the individual and society the need to replace the technological worldview with ecological. It turns out that a system-forming element in the system of ecological worldview is ecological consciousness which is ultimately managed to provide a spiritual basis for a set of environmental factors in human life and society. As a result, they become priorities in human life. Moreover, they can even become a meaning of human life. The content of the basic levels of ecological consciousness formation is revealed: national-realistic, everyday-empirical and conscious-theoretical. It is proved that the carriers of the national-realistic level are characterized by an intuitive approach to understanding the existing environmental problems. As for the everyday-empirical level of ecological consciousness, such people are interested in the practical solution of the problem in the field of ecology, which is directly related to them. And only the carriers of the conscious-theoretical level of ecological consciousness are characterized by a conscious and stable attitude towards environmental problems in all their manifestations. They are characterized by the active life position of protection and conservation of nature, which is realized in active environmental activities. It is proved that ecotourism serves as an effective means of forming and affirming the ecological consciousness and ecological culture of the individual and society, due to the fact that in the process of human interaction with the natural environment the need for care is formed. The content and correlation of the concepts «ecotourism», «biotourism», «natural tourism», «agritourism», «green tourism» are revealed. It turns out that ecotourism necessarily supports the «greening» of other types of tourism, which in their activities are beginning to teach not only the risks of negative impact of such activities on the environment, but also create efforts to ensure its preservation. The significant ecological potential of Khmelnytskyi region is revealed.

scholarly journals ECOLOGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS AS THE BASIS FOR PERSON'S ECOLOGICAL CULTURE

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-38
Author(s):  
Leonid Vyghovsjkyj ◽  
Tetjana Vyghovsjka
Keyword(s):  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
General System ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Environmental Consciousness ◽  
Ecological Consciousness ◽  
Empirical Level ◽  
Ecological Culture

The article shows that in the conditions of global ecological crisis Homo sapiens as a species can only survive if the problem of restoring historically lost balance of relations in the general system of "human being – natural environment" is resolved as soon as possible. We argue that such a process requires, first and foremost, an appropriate reorientation of the humanity's worldview with respect to the nature and formation of environmental consciousness in members of the human community based on such principles. It is proved that in the system of ecological consciousness the worldview plays a systematic role, because it gives a person the answer to the question about the main values and priorities in human life, provides appropriate ideological justification of thoughts and actions that meet the ecological needs of people and communities. It is emphasized that, in such a situation, the preservation and restoration of the environment, which forms the need for ecological activity, becomes a sense of human life. The role of historical types of worldview (mythological, religious, scientific) in shaping the attitude of a person to nature is shown. We also show that the characteristics of the main levels of formation of the person's ecological consciousness is, at the same time, the characteristics of their ecological maturity. This is due to the fact that the typological groups reflect the degree of perception of environmental ideas and the adoption of environmental principles with subsequent implementation in environmental activities. We show that the levels of environmental consciousness can be classified as naive-realistic, everyday-empirical, and conscious-theoretical. The naive-realistic level of maturity of environmental consciousness is characteristic of people who act as natural environmentalists in their lives. The everyday-empirical level is characterized by the existence (in the rational and emotional areas) of a negative attitude to environmental problems. The conscioustheoretical level of such consciousness is characterized by informed and active attitude to environmental problems. It is emphasized that in the process of forming an ecological worldview, there is a need to move from the dominance of the environmental paradigm to the dominance of the ideological, moral and ethical paradigms.

scholarly journals Pandemic in the Context of on Environmental Consciousness

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-78
Author(s):  
M.O. Mdivani ◽  
E.S. Alexandrova
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
Environmental Consciousness ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Coronavirus Infection ◽  
Serious Disease ◽  
The Impact

The article is directly related to the subject of common interest — COVID-19 pandemic, which significantly impacts the entire world community. In the paper, we consider the spread of coronavirus infection as one of the consequences of active use of the natural environment and its resources by humans. Psychologically, the current ecological crisis stems from the regularities of the human consciousness formation. The present study empirically examines the impact of the COVID-19 hazard estimation on the nature-human interaction assessment. The study involved 372 participants (42% men and 58% women), the mean age of the subjects was 33.9 years (SD = 11.4 years). The data obtained shows that the perception of COVID-19 as a serious disease is associated with the apprehension of nature as adverse for humans, fear of natural forces (F = 12.307; p < 0.001), — perceptions characterizing the archaic type of environmental consciousness. At the same time, younger people assess the negative impact of nature on humans significantly lower than the older respondents (chi-square = 14.041; p < 0.001), and at the same time, recognizing the danger of the coronavirus, they are concerned about the natural environment preservation, demonstrating an ecocentric type of environmental consciousness.

scholarly journals Flight Simulator’s Energy Consumption Depending on the Conditions of the Air Operation

Energies ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 580
Author(s):  
Michał Gołębiewski ◽  
Marta Galant-Gołębiewska ◽  
Remigiusz Jasiński
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Civil Aviation ◽  
Flight Simulator ◽  
Motion Platform ◽  
Simulator Motion ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

Protection of the natural environment is a key activity driving development in the transport discipline today. The use of simulators to train civil aviation pilots provides an excellent opportunity to maintain the balance between efficiency and limit the negative impact of transport on the environment. Therefore, we decided to determine the impact of selected simulations of air operations on energy consumption. The aim of the research was to determine the energy consumption of the flight simulator depending on the type of flight operation and configuration used. We also decided to compare the obtained result with the energy consumption of an aircraft of a similar class, performing a similar aviation operation and other means of transport. In order to obtain the results, a research plan was proposed consisting of 12 scenarios differing in the simulated aircraft model, weather conditions and the use of the simulator motion platform. In each of the scenarios, energy consumption was measured, taking into account the individual components of the simulator. The research showed that the use of a flight simulator has a much smaller negative impact on the natural environment than flying in a traditional plane. Use of a motion platform indicated a change in energy consumption of approximately 40% (in general, flight simulator configuration can change energy consumption by up to 50%). The deterioration of weather conditions during the simulation caused an increase in energy consumption of 14% when motion was disabled and 18% when motion was enabled. Energy consumption in the initial stages of pilot training can be reduced by 97% by using flight simulators compared to aircraft training.

scholarly journals The Second Christ, Saint Francis of Assisi and ecological consciousness

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendrik Viviers
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Good News ◽  
Empirical Science ◽  
Ecological Consciousness ◽  
Attitudes And Knowledge ◽  
Saint Francis ◽  
Intuitive Sense ◽  
Francis Of Assisi

Even though the life stories of Jesus and the so-called second Christ, Francis of Assisi, incline to the fantastical, their value for a modern ecological consciousness is defendable. Behind Francis� personification of nature and his mystical experiences of nature lie an intuitive sense of interconnectedness and interdependence, of being fully part of the natural web of life (confirmed by empirical science). The same is true of the immanence of Jesus. Religious figures like Francis and Jesus can provide a sound moral attitude towards caring for the natural world, but attitudes need to be informed by scientific knowledge to act ecologically correct. A partnership between attitudes and knowledge hopefully contains good news for a sustainable �green� planet.Intradisciplinary and/or�interdisciplinary�implications: Ecological hermeneutics (part of liberation theology or hermeneutics) challenges traditional theologies� often anthropocentric bias in the intra-disciplinary arena. It respects the interconnectedness or interdependence of human and non-human life, including the non-organic, empirically substantiated by natural science. This shared realisation allows for a fruitful inter-disciplinary discourse with science to address the global ecological crisis.

scholarly journals Globalization, Greed and Glocal Ecology: A Psychological Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Olena Khrushch
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Carpathian Mountains ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Entire Planet

Evidently, a globalized society causes global environmental crises. Undoubtedly, survival of human life on the planet Earth is threatened. Is there any connection between globalization, environmental crises and psychological manifestations? What are the psychological perspectives linking the ecological damages from local to the global scale? This article explores such intricate relationships and discusses the implications. The underlying principal cause is human’s unending greed to acquire maximum materials and power to control the planet and entire humanity. The greed is believed to be a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. The greedy people are supposed to have biological, psychological and sociological drives. Evidently, global destruction of the ecosystems and natural environment are directly or indirectly linked to unprecedented chronic human greed and self-indulgence. Undoubtedly, unencumbered chronic greed of a few elite institutions led by top capitalists has put the entire planet in havoc and infiltrated widespread sufferings at the global scale. Conclusively, psychological basis of environmental problems has a sociological and socio-historical scope within the frame of globalization. Psychological account of the environmental crisis is explained subsequently in this article followed by a case study of deforestation of Carpathian Mountains staged by a greedy Austrian man.

Communicating & Relating

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B. Arundale
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Communicative Interaction ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
The Social ◽  
Language And Social Interaction ◽  
Everyday Talk ◽  
The Individual ◽  
New Research

Communicating & Relating offers an account of how relating with one another emerges in communicating in everyday interacting. Prior work has indicated that human relationships arise in human communicating, and some studies have made arguments for why that is the case. Communicating & Relating moves beyond this work to offer an account of how both relating and face emerge in everyday talk and conduct: what comprises human communicating, what defines human social systems, how the social and the individual are linked in human life, and what comprises human relating and face. Part 1 develops the Conjoint Co-constituting Model of Communicating to address the question “How do participants constitute turns, actions, and meanings in everyday interacting?” Part 2 argues that the processes of constituting what is known cross-culturally as “face” are the processes of constituting relating, and develops Face Constituting Theory to address the question “How do participants constitute relating in everyday interacting?” The answers to both questions are grounded in evidence from everyday talk and conduct. Communicating & Relating is an invitation to engage its alternative account in research on communicating, relating, and face in language and social interaction. Like other volumes in the Foundations of Human Interaction series, Communicating & Relating offers new perspectives and new research on communicative interaction and on human relationships as key elements of human sociality.

scholarly journals The evolution of Predictive Adaptive Responses in human life history

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Nettle ◽  
Willem E Frankenhuis ◽  
Ian J Rickard
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Weather Forecast ◽  
Reproductive Timing ◽  
Adaptive Responses ◽  
Early Life Adversity ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Somatic State

Many studies have shown that adverse experience in early life is associated with accelerated reproductive timing in humans. There are two different classes of adaptive explanation for such associations. Both can be seen as predictive adaptive responses (PARs). According to external PAR hypotheses, early-life adversity provides a ‘weather forecast’ of the environmental conditions into which the individual will mature, and it is adaptive for the individual to develop an appropriate phenotype for this anticipated environment. In internal PAR hypotheses, early-life adversity has a lasting negative impact on the individual’s somatic state, such that her health is likely to fail more rapidly as she gets older, and there is an advantage to adjusting her reproductive schedule accordingly. We use a model of fluctuating environments to derive evolveability conditions for acceleration of reproductive timing in response to early-life adversity. For acceleration to evolve via the external PAR process, early-life cues must have a high degree of validity and the level of annual autocorrelation in the individual’s environment must be almost perfect. For acceleration to evolve via the internal PAR process requires that early-life experience must determine a significant fraction of the variance in survival prospects in adulthood. The two processes are not mutually exclusive, and mechanisms for calibrating reproductive timing on the basis of early experience could evolve through a combination of the predictive value of early-life adversity for the later environment and its negative impact on somatic state.

scholarly journals SOME ASPECTS OF DEPENDENCE PSYCHO-EMOTIONAL CONDITION PATIENTS AGAINST MANY TYPES OF MALOCCLUSION AND CONDITIONS INDIVIDUAL TEETH

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 329-332
Author(s):  
N. E Mitin ◽  
V. E Tikhonov ◽  
Maksim Igorevich Grishin
Keyword(s):  
Negative Impact ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Orthodontic Appliances ◽  
Aesthetic Appearance ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Individual

The aesthetic problems associated with defects in appearance and wearing orthodontic appliances in the malocclusion, the negative impact on the psyche of the patient in all age groups. Malocclusion disturb the aesthetic appearance of the patient, causing functional disorders and pathological changes. The problem ofprevention and treatment ofdentoalveolar anomalies has not only medical, but also a social value. Many patients understand the needfor timely treatment to the dentist. Beautiful and straight teeth have become part of modern life, his well-being, health and social status. Any abnormalities always affect the psyche. Patients with dental system pathology suffer from changes in appearance, violations of phonetics, chewing function and this formed the difficulties in communication. Mental and emotional state plays an important role in human life, which affects the predictions of success and the development of treatments. Do not unimportant role in the treatment plays a dentist, his mood affects the man, and he has concluded on the basis of suggestion or self-hypnosis. The mood doctor can specifically change the whole picture of the disease, and set up a patient in a positive way. Therefore, the physician should become familiar with the individual characteristics of the patient and adjust it to the correct understanding of the disease that would yield results.

scholarly journals The evolution of predictive adaptive responses in human life history

2013 ◽  
Vol 280 (1766) ◽  
pp. 20131343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Nettle ◽  
Willem E. Frankenhuis ◽  
Ian J. Rickard
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Weather Forecast ◽  
Reproductive Timing ◽  
Adaptive Responses ◽  
Early Life Adversity ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Somatic State

Many studies in humans have shown that adverse experience in early life is associated with accelerated reproductive timing, and there is comparative evidence for similar effects in other animals. There are two different classes of adaptive explanation for associations between early-life adversity and accelerated reproduction, both based on the idea of predictive adaptive responses (PARs). According to external PAR hypotheses, early-life adversity provides a ‘weather forecast’ of the environmental conditions into which the individual will mature, and it is adaptive for the individual to develop an appropriate phenotype for this anticipated environment. In internal PAR hypotheses, early-life adversity has a lasting negative impact on the individual's somatic state, such that her health is likely to fail more rapidly as she gets older, and there is an advantage to adjusting her reproductive schedule accordingly. We use a model of fluctuating environments to derive evolveability conditions for acceleration of reproductive timing in response to early-life adversity in a long-lived organism. For acceleration to evolve via the external PAR process, early-life cues must have a high degree of validity and the level of annual autocorrelation in the individual's environment must be almost perfect. For acceleration to evolve via the internal PAR process requires that early-life experience must determine a significant fraction of the variance in survival prospects in adulthood. The two processes are not mutually exclusive, and mechanisms for calibrating reproductive timing on the basis of early experience could evolve through a combination of the predictive value of early-life adversity for the later environment and its negative impact on somatic state.

scholarly journals Prawne i ekonomiczne dylematy zrównoważonego rozwoju w dobie ogólnoświatowego kryzysu

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-72
Author(s):  
Maciej Rudnicki
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Ecological Awareness ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Social Comfort ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Rational Management ◽  
The Individual

The starting point for the reflections at the heart of the paper was a range of issues bordering philosophy, morality, economy, finance and law, regarding the rational management of natural resources and the improvement and protection of the natural environment, as well as the regulation and forming of peoples’ attitudes and behaviours in relation to the natural environment, and the setting of legal boundaries for those behaviours and sanctions for crossing them. the state of the natural environment has a very strong influence on the fulfillment of existential human needs. It is also related to ecological needs which could be characterised as requirements for the biological, physical, chemical, and technological characteristics of the individual elements of the natural environment. Humans strive for satisfactory lifestyles of appropriate quality, and often have to make choices between various goods. Unfortunately, ecological properties are very often treated last of all in the decision-making hierarchy and are usually considered inferior to, for example, material prosperity or social comfort. Treating the ecological properties as such often results in them going unnoticed overall, and very soon leads to permanent and negative changes that directly affect human life and the environment, as well as having a negative effect on health. Therefore, such extraordinarily essential conditions for choosing and fulfilling ecological needs as regards first-class existential needs that have a vital influence on the quality of life and ecological awareness, are based chiefly on understanding the rules of sustainable development. Should the development of civilisation be ruled by the economy, or should the basis of that development be protection and maintenance of natural environmental resources? Or maybe the most sensible option is to balance economic, social, and ecological aims? The problem pinpointed in this way highlights the importance in the life of the global community, and may for years induce consideration and reflection.

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